Standard economics has been the subject of many critiques. Mainstream economic models and analysis rely on a level of sophistication that is hard to justify from an introspective viewpoint but also considering the large body of experimental evidence. Recent years have witnessed a flurry of...

This program will consist of three main topics in Industrial Organization: Economics of Platforms, Competition Policy and new empirical aspects of industry dynamics and productivity. The program offers a blend of theory and empirics.

The objective of the Experimental Economics program is to offer young scholars a crash course in empirical methods aimed at understanding economic behavior: how to design, implement and analyze an experiment so to answer a research question. The summer school is methodological in nature,...

Institutions and social frictions (associated with inequalities, political conflicts, corruption, and cultural polarization) have emerged as central themes in development economics. This course takes stock of existing research and moves on to draw the outline of the current research frontier....

This program is designed to provide an overview of concepts and techniques essential for the analysis of health policies, at the frontier of health economics research. Instructors will develop the following topics, centered on health policies: economic preferences and behavior, demand and supply...

This programme addresses recent debates at the frontier of the field: the unbundling of production processes, the distributive effects of trade, the role of large firms in the global economy and finally the Ricardian revival: - Contemporary Ricardian Theory - Global Value Chains - Large firms in...

The Macroeconomics module is made of courses dealing with topics at the frontier of policy-relevant research: crises and bubbles, heterogeneity and financial frictions; regulation and macro-prudential policy; information imperfections; and international linkages. It also includes a quantitative...

Immigration is a major aspect of globalization and is increasingly at the center of the public and policy debate. This course aims to present the cutting-edge research on the economics of migration and to provide the tools to contribute to this field. The course is divided in 3 parts: - The...

Climate change impacts on the economy (on income, inequalities, migrations) and appropriate regulation of « the greatest externality the world has ever seen », as the Stern Review puts it, have emerged as central themes in public economics. This PSE summer school program aims at teaching...

The Policy Evaluation programme presents recent developments in the microeconomic analysis of impact evaluation, with two courses taught by experts in their fields. Providing a credible estimation of a causal effect has become a standard in economic analysis, both in research papers and policy...